City of Bloomington

The Bloomington Public Library has presented two options for expansion to the city council. One costs $20.7 million, the other $2 million more. The difference is a two-level parking structure.

Bloomington leaders will soon decide whether the city should provide financial assistance to flood victims. Until now, much of the debate has focused on whether it’s even legal to do that. But that can-or-can’t discussion oversimplifies the issue.

The Bloomington City Council Monday evening expressed an appetite to expedite the next two phases of the Locust-Colton sewer separation project and other measures in the wake of record flooding and sewage backups during heavy rainfall in late June.

WGLT met with five West Monroe Street neighbors this week to see and hear about the damage they suffered during late June's historic rainfall and its aftermath.

Bloomington Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe says he empathizes with residents who are still cleaning out flooded basements following last month's heavy storms, but he asks the public not to "reach conclusions in haste" about the city's response.

Government officials in Bloomington-Normal still have over half of the emergency funding they received for rent and utility assistance last summer.

Bloomington’s mayor says the city’s next police chief will need to have significant experience and be able to navigate the “friction” around policing that’s been more prominent since George Floyd’s murder.

Bloomington’s mayor says the city’s next police chief will need to have significant experience and be able to navigate the “friction” around policing that’s been more prominent since George Floyd’s murder.

A majority of Bloomington city council members seemed more concerned with political fallout than any potential litigation when it terminated a tax-sharing agreement with Normal four years ago.

One of the oldest zoos in the country will commemorate its decades-long effort to saving animals on Saturday. The Miller Park Zoo has continued to operate through two pandemics, multiple wars, a depression, and many recessions.